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[faithfall]

First Impressions

Appearance

Adrian is 28 years old, 5'7, and has a slim/athletic build.

His skin is pitch black at the edges of his extremities and the top of his head, and graduates to the normal brown. One of his eyes is gold, with an enlarged iris and no pupil, and the other is fully black with with visibly dark veins around it. When experiencing extremes of emotion, such as anger or embarrassment, his golden freckles glow noticeably and his halo might become briefly visible.

Fashion

Adrian is always fully covered from the neck down, including gloves, regardless of the weather. He favours cloaks, suits, and high collars if he can find them but will prioritize wearing anything that covers the maximum amount of skin and allows him to hide his face in shadow. Usually very neatly kept to the point of being a bit fussy.

If he has the option, he will choose clothing that's loose-fitting but tailored and well-made. He's the sort of person who'll wear a plain button-up top that costs like $500 (stupid) (his ass does NOT have $500 here).

Demeanor & Attitude

Tends to fade into the background whenever he can and generally doesn't want to be perceived. He's polite and friendly, but distant, and often very guarded about extremes of emotion. When meeting people for the first time, they tend to get his customer service personality, but he warms up very quickly and has a calming and sincere presence. Even so, he always keeps at least a few feet of physical distance between himself and others unless he's examining them.

Don't let this fool you. Once he becomes close friends with someone, he will be their primary source of stress as he proceeds to show off his incredibly non-existent self-preservation instincts and probably does dark magic to protect them whether they want that or not.

Voice

He sounds High Fantasy British I'm sorry but not that sorry. His natural speaking voice is pretty deep, but he tends to pitch it up and soften it, especially when he's meeting new people, because he doesn't like to be noticed and doesn't want to stand out.

Undead creatures & people who can sense evil click here

The ground around him (within 5ft) is desecrated ground. There's no visible indicator of this, it's just vibes. It's entirely up to you if this leaves any discernible impression at all for your character. Undead creatures might feel more invigorated on desecrated ground, or simply feel more at home.

Those who can sense evil will sense it from Adrian (because of his warlock pacts, though they might not immediately realize this).

CODE BY TESSISAMESS

OOC Permissions

☆ BRACKETS/PROSE: Brackets, but I'll match prose.

☆ OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & CONTENT WARNINGS: None of this is likely to come up unprompted in a thread but here's a list of content warnings for things that might come up:

General warnings for the Curse of Strahd campaign

Child abuse and neglect, emotional and physical abuse towards vulnerable adults, murder and attempted murder, including that of children, kidnapping, stalking, gaslighting, abuse of power, racism, sexism, cruelty, torture, references to colonialism and genocide, mutilation, mind control, the desecration of the dead and of places of worship, cannibalism, including involuntary cannibalism, mercy killing, situations paralleling sexual assault, parental death, child death, reference to stillbirth/miscarriage, partner death, mental illness and the mistreatment of the mentally ill, maladaptive grieving behaviors, starvation and food horror, cruelty to animals, prolonged and painful deaths, body horror, transformation against ones will, insects and infestation horror, abandonment, including child abandonment, betrayal, including partner and parental betrayal, consumption of alcohol including portrayals of alcoholism, involuntary homicide, graphic depictions of death and violence, implied necrophilia, self harm, suicide and victim blaming.

For Adrian specifically, the main ones are: PTSD, survivors' guilt, body horror, reckless self-endangerment, occasional passive suicidal ideation, thoughts/mentions of cannibalism.

Please feel free to let me know if you find anything uncomfortable in a thread or want me to avoid any of these subjects!

Otherwise, I have one request: Adrian can be immature sometimes, but unless your character is just Like That with everyone under 30 (I totally get it, I have also played people who are like that), please don't icly refer to him as 'kid' or 'boy' - he's 28! He might look a bit younger but he's very clearly An Adult. Otherwise, if you're unsure about approaching a subject just send me a message!

☆ BACKTAGGING: Yes please! I'm kind of a slow tagger.

☆ THREADHOPPING: Yup, that's fine.

☆ FOURTHWALLING: If people want to mention that d&d exists in their worlds and recognize the names of monsters/classes/etc that's totally fine — the multiverse is a big, weird place! However, please refrain from going into details about the contents of the Curse of Strahd module (though mentioning Strahd himself as an entity that exists in d&d is fine). Basically, you can do as much as you want with 'a fictionalized version of your world exists in mine' but try not to go so far as 'you, specifically, are a fictional character.'

☆ NOT INTERESTED IN: Nothing I can think of at the moment!

IC Permissions

☆ PHYSICAL INFORMATION: Adrian's right eye is fully black with some dark/visible veins around the socket. Left eye has a large gold iris with no visible pupil. He has a ton of little golden freckles all over his body, concentrated on the bridge of his nose. When he's feeling particularly strong emotions, they may start glowing, and extremes of emotion may cause his halo to become visible briefly.

☆ PHYSICAL TOUCH: You can and should! OOC I'm not opposed to this. Adrian will immediately flinch away if he's not friendly/familiar with them though he won't take offense if it's obviously well-meaning.

He go out of his way to avoid any attempted skin-to-skin contact since it's likely to inflict a magical poison that he has no control over. (His touch acts as a contagion spell.) How your character might be effected by this, if at all, is entirely up to you, and can change with every touch!

☆ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Yup, that's fine! He's fresh from vampire land so he's pretty accustomed to it.

☆ PSYCHICS/PSYCHIC ABILITIES: Consider this blanket permission to just go for it. He has no particular defenses, so it's fine to read his mind, though he probably won't be thrilled about it if he finds out. If your character can manipulate emotions or control other characters, just let me know what the effect is in your prose and I'll likely just roll with it, or DM you if we need to sort something out! I'm trusting people to be chill and reasonable.

☆ RELATIONSHIPS: LAUGHS... Adrian has not dated anyone or even seriously thought about it but I think it would be fun for him to stumble into something! He's a noble so for most of his life he sort of expected to be married for political reasons, if that, but not much else.

☆ MAGICAL INFORMATION: As a warlock, he's bonded to otherworldly entities who provide him with the bulk of his magical abilities. If that's something you want your character to sense in some way, go for it! These entities are specifically an angel (his primary/original warlock patron), a vampire (Strahd commandeered his patron pact against his will when he entered Barovia), and a death god (choices were made).

☆ OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: This isn't really a thing anymore but he used to try to keep his aasimar heritage under wraps partly because aasimar, as Champions of Good and all that, are like Tasty Treat #1 to demons and the like... but for Adrain it's mostly because he has a lot of issues around failing to live up to his 'blessing'. While he doesn't necessarily mind talking about it at this point, he still retains a lot of old ingrained habits around trying to hide it and tends to be a little bitter/self-deprecating about it.